Rif Dimashq | Eight injured including five combatants in Israeli shelling on several positions

Three civilians including a woman and at least five military combatants were injured under the Israeli shelling on positions near residential areas in Al-Sayeda Zainab area in Rif Dimashq, where ambulance vehicles rushed towards the targeted positions in a farm near Al-Bahdaliya, amid information regarding casualties among militias.

The Israeli shelling targeted Al-Sayeda Zainab, Damascus International Airport and Akraba in Rif Dimashq, in three consecutive attacks.

A few hours ago, Israel fired missiles on a position at the outskirts of Hadar Town in northern Al-Qonaitara countryside, coinciding with Israeli shelling on positions in Rif Dimashq. However, no casualties were reported.

Israeli forces fired missiles on positions in Al-Sayeda Zainab and Damascus International Airport in Rif Dimashq, where forces of the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian militias are stationed in military headquarters and ammunition warehouses.

Moreover, missiles were fired on checkpoints of the Air-Defence Forces. However, no casualties were reported.

It is worth noting that violent explosions were heard in Damascus and the southern area of Syria, due to Israeli shelling and attempts by the regime’s Air-Defence to block the missiles.

SOHR documented 63 attacks in 2023: 44 airstrikes and 19 rocket attacks by ground forces, during which Israel targeted several positions in Syria, destroying nearly 127 targets, including buildings, weapons and ammunitions warehouses, headquarters, centres and vehicles. These strikes killed 110 combatants and injured 125 others. The fatalities are distributed as follows:
• 40 members of regime forces, including officers.
• 35 Iranian-backed non-Syrian militiamen.
• Six members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
• Seven Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen.
• 20 members of the Lebanese Hezbollah.
• Two members of “Al-Jihad Al-Islami” organisation.
In addition, those attacks left three men and a woman dead and other civilians injured.
The attacks are distributed regionally as follows:
• Damascus and Rif Dimashq: 25 attacks.
• Al-Quneitera: 12 attacks.
• Hama: two attacks.
• Tartus: three attacks.
• Aleppo: eight attacks.
• Al-Suwaidaa: four attacks.
• Daraa: 11 attacks.
• Homs: four attacks.
• Deir Ezzor: two attacks.
SOHR would like to point out that Israel sometimes targeted more than one province in a single attack.